Viafarini

19/08/2026

Introducing VIR Artist

Emese Kazar

"Red Silver 4", 2025
Olio su tela, 140 x 120 cm



Foto: Jens Weyers

24/07/2026

Highlights from the Archive

Nick Davis, "The Desiring-Image - Gilles Deleuze and Contemporary Q***r Cinema", 2013, Oxford University Press

The Desiring-Image yields new models of q***r cinema produced since the late 1980s, based on close formal analysis of diverse films as well as innovative contributions to current film theory. The book defines "q***r cinema" less as a specific genre or in terms of gay and le***an identity, but more broadly as a kind of filmmaking that conveys sexual desire and orientation as potentially fluid within any individual's experience, and as forces that can therefore unite unlikely groups of people along new lines, socially, sexually, or politically. The films driving this analysis range from celebrated fixtures of the New Q***r Cinema of the 1990s (including Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman and Todd Haynes's Velvet Goldmine) to sexually provocative films of the same era that are rarely classified as q***r (David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers and Naked Lunch) to breakout films by 21st-century directors (Rodney Evans's Brother to Brother, John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus). To frame these readings and to avoid heterosexist assumptions in other forms of film analysis, The Desiring-Image revisits the work of the philosopher Gilles Deleuze, whose two major works on cinema somehow never address the radical ideas about desire he expresses in other texts. This book brings those notions together in innovative ways, making them clear and accessible to newcomers and field specialists alike, with clear, illustrated examples drawn from a wide range of movies extending beyond the central case studies. Thus, The Desiring-Image speaks to readers interested in q***r and gay/le***an studies, in film theory, in feminist and sexuality scholarship, and in theory and philosophy, putting those discourses into rich, surprising conversations with popular cinema of the last 30 years.

22/07/2026

Introducing VIR Artist

Oxana Tregubova

Flora, 2023
Olio, acrilico e inchiostro su tela, 104 x 104 cm

20/07/2026

Introducing VIR Artist

Sasha Speranskii

Untitled, 2025

17/07/2026

Highlights from the Archive

Thomas Ramge and Rafael Laguna de la Vera, "On the Brink of Utopia - Reinventing Innovation to Solve the World's Largest Problems", 2023, MIT Press

A new and coherent framework for fostering the breakthrough innovations that we urgently need to confront our collective future.
We live in less innovative times than we think. Despite having made major technological advancements in a few areas, we are still left with enormous unsolved challenges. A radical shift in the culture of innovation is needed. On the Brink of Utopia, by authors Thomas Ramge and Rafael Laguna de la Vera, and with a foreword by Nobel Laureate Stefan Hell, offers just that—a new and coherent framework for fostering breakthrough innovations for human progress. In their “Innovation Leap Paradigm,” they present seven steps in seven chapters and answer three simple questions: What great challenges need to be tackled? Who makes tech leaps? And finally, what political, economic, and cultural environments foster radical innovation?
The authors sketch out a future in which technology will solve real problems, anywhere from climate change and hunger to obesity and menstrual pain. They envision a future in which biotechnologists work from a platform that enables them to develop effective drugs within months for any emerging virus, where green energy will be too cheap to meter and aerial carbon can be transmuted into a valuable commodity at scale. Offering a new perspective on innovation that centers not just American readers but also readers from all over the world, On the Brink of Utopia is a hopeful and visionary book that reimagines the roles of innovators, citizens, governments, and financial markets to foster innovation leaps that maximize the well-being of the greatest number of people.

15/07/2026

Introducing VIR Artist

Juanjo Barreda Aznar

A436
Dalla serie Systēma, 2022-2025
Tecnica mista su carta
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15/07/2026

Viafarini.work Open Studio // Qualche foto dell'evento di restituzione delle ricerche degli artisti che partecipano al programma maggio-agosto di VIR Viafarini-in-residence del 9 luglio negli spazi di via Marco d'Agrate 33: Sofia Miranda Ayejes, Juanjo Barreda Aznar, Mirella Jaworska, Sasha Speranskii e della presentazione del video Les Iles de Sidi di Andrea Grasselli e dei due progetti speciali di Gianluca Tramonti e di Matteo Urbani.

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Foto di Ibrahima Mbengue

13/07/2026

Introducing VIR Artist

Mirella Jaworska

Jalousie, 2025
Olio su tela, 65.2 x 53.0 cm

13/07/2026

13/07/2026

Viafarini Open Studio // Qualche foto dell'evento di restituzione delle ricerche degli artisti e del curatore che partecipano al programma maggio-agosto di VIR Viafarini-in-residence dell'8 luglio negli spazi di via Carlo Farini 35: Venus Avery, Flora Deborah, Alice Dicembrino, Ann-Josephin Dietz, Ayah Elnour, Emese Kazar, Valeria Limongi, Caroline McManus, Oxana Tregubova e il curatore Yohsuke Ishizuka.







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Foto di Ibrahima Mbengue